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What exactly are they looking for?

Today after I got drunk really last night with my friend's one of the friend's home and did a lot of dancing, especially on Joe Cocker – You can leave your hat on, imagine what dancing. It was superb night and I got home around 4 am and woke up at 9 am. Good thing school is out today.

So right now I receive this e-mail from a magazine I submitted to a month ago with the rejection, which was very polite by the way. No hard feelings on my side, but still the comment 'We are looking for something else' got me thinking and my half awake mind has had a sort of a deep philosophical moment and I had to debate and put my thoughts in the blog, since I do want to sound like a professional.

I bet that you people, who have sent short fiction out or even manuscripts and get that same line, ask yourselves "Well, what are they looking for?". Somehow it's rude to ask the editors that, because a) it will put you in a bad light as one of the people, who think they are the best around and must know the reason why their work is not accepted and b) it might be a kinder way to say "You really can't reach our level."

Out of curiosity though, I can't stop myself from asking this here. What exactly do the editors search for? If course they say the truth, because I am sure most of them do. Do they want to see a different style, a story or novel that is paced a bit faster at the time or maybe they are looking for certain character or motive or general vibes? Of course they might want topics handled in a different way in the specified genre or may be a mixed genre, if the magazine published multiple genres. I am not so sure, but god do I want to know.

The best case scenario would be to have means to know, what exactly a special magazine/ agent/editor searches for and observing the bigger, writers and authors can really sense what is hip and what is not, but that is general. I dream of a special Google version that shows individually, who wants exactly what and when and so on. Of course this is my Utopian version.

Now here comes the fun part, for me that is. Have you ever wondered the same thing out sheer curiosity? Do you have a special sixth sense to sniffing out what goes and what not on all levels? And if you do, do you mind making a list for me? :) I couldn't resist. But seriously. Have you?
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Saturday Six

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Saturday is the equivalent of torture for the day, but many happy things happened and I am so excited. I went out as scheduled with my mom for a wee shopping spree and searched for the destined suit. We visited a few shops, but you know I am an awkward individual and Mother Nature sure likes to match things, so she added an unorthodox body type to the weird personality. So finding the right suit is just harder than I thought, cause some are either too wide or have too short sleeves.
So we did find one that made me gape after putting it on. Suddenly I looked like a man, a red carpet hottie and I think I smiled, while looking in the mirror and it didn't shatter. That my dear friends happens rarely for me.   

After that we visited the whackoo dermatologist, who yet again wasted a whole hour of my life, explaining how nettle soup brought iron in the body and made the hair glisten like you are taking Pantene through your veins. I have to share this. He started the whacked mixing of chemicals and took out a hammer and used its handle to smash the ingredients together. I was seriously considering whether or not to run, when he told me that I should be careful how I apply to mixtures, cause they can react negatively for my skin, if not done properly.

Then I bought myself a vest! It's a long sleeved vest with white and black stripes and has these cool insignias and gray spots on the elbows and it's just "gah! I love it!". I spend too much time searching for that one. I mentioned about the unorthodox body type. Yeah, that explains it.

So exciting news
1) I decided that as a hobby I want to be a photographer and the learn how to manipulate pictures. I am asking my mom to finally fix a camera and get a charge device and changing the battery, so that it may work and I can start my photography raid. Mind you, in the beginning I am gonna do normal pics and you will see me, since I destroyed each and every single digital evidence of my existence. The summer, I plan a course on photoshop.

2) I found out that the books I won have come and what disturbed me was the fact that only three books arrived and they have to be five and well the package says that they have to be three and I started wondering, why there aren't two more, especially considering that The Marked isn't among them. I will have to e-mail Jason about the weirdness.  But the books, of the books, are so shiny, slick with these cool covers. I was giggling stupidly all the way from the post to home. Hah!

Oh and I wrote today on my book. 1K as promised and now I will watch "I am Legend" after that subjugate chapter one of my apocalyptic novella, which still has no title. I think something along the line of "Predatory Territory" or "Hunt" or "Carnivorous Flower", but they seem off.
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I said I would be working and I would be off from blogging I know it! I know I have no time and yet it's addictive. So I am posting some writing update, movie recommendations and a bunch of crap to make thinks personal.

1) Read Gena Showalter
-  Been there, done that. I am thirty pages further into the story and things are looking up really well. I feel for Mia Snow, cause she is placed between a hard place and a really hard place with spikes and barbed wires. I wonder what happens next. Hope she kicks ass.

- I also read from Svetoslav Minkov, who is the Bulgarian weirdo in literature and has these kick ass short stories and I get the Wow effect every time. The funniest so far was the one about a family receiving a metal tin can with grey dust, which they think is a new American vitamin and then use it in everything they cook and in the end it turns out this was their relative's cremated corpse. The last line was so obliterating. Dark humor at its highest.

2) Edit horror story and fantasy story – Not today!
3) I take a pass on this one! No tampering done at all.
4) Has been done already

5) Outline novellas for Nocturne Bites.

- I did this right now and I am satisfied. I outlined in chapters and set my words per chapter and all those pretty little details that whisper: "You are professional." Sadly "Clandestine Hearts" doesn't fit the guidelines, since it has to have a strong Alpha-male character and my Nathan in CH is neither strong, nor alpha in any way. Call him skinny delicious, the term is provided by yours truly!

So here is the new gig in a few words: an apocalyptic world; a woman and her dragqueen friend, whose business isn't exactly clean; a man, whose business is to get involved with people with unclean business; one missed meal; one angry mutated plant monster; modernistic demons and tango of doom.

6) This one is for tomorrow I hope.

Anyways I watched Moulin Rouge again, since daddy dearest flipped the channel and refused to let me watch it the last time it was on TV, so I downloaded it. Hah to him! The ending was sad and well Ian is hot, doing love ballads and Nicole is hot doing Kankan. All in all I loved it.

"Enchanted " (Spoiler Alert) is another good movie. I bet everyone has watched it already and had a blast, but I just found time today. I have way too many movies stored and it's high time they go. Anyways I loved Patrick Dempsey and his constant comments like: "He sings too?" and "Are you for real?"
The evil queen nailed it near the ending: "I will kill you all starting with the girl who started it all." Then Patrick says "Over my dead body!"
"Okay, I am flexible."
Tell me now isn't this funny!

So tomorrow is shopping time! I am gonna look for a suit for the big prom that is like three months away and after buying it I will have to maintain the same weight, no thinning or fattening. Blah! It will be something black, hopefully with stripes and well a green shirt. My mom says I am not allowed to buy a green suit with pink stars and lots of shinny beads and a sombrero hat for the prom.
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It has been a while since I posted for the last time. Mind you I maintain four blogs with pretty much the same content on each and every one and I wonder how the hell did that happen, but still I am having fun and it's a challenge. I will deal!

In the time I have been gone I did a lot of work at least by my standards, since I am as slow as a snail in that regard. First off I watched Torchwood season 1 and well I wasn't as much as loving many people have been towards the show, but my sister has definitely been hooked. All I get is: "Can we watch Torchwood now?" I admit I am downloading season two episodes and watched the first one, so yeah I dig. All the gay stuff get me hot and that captain Jack Harkness,  god, isn't he a hottie?

So I also watched "The Breakfast Club", which was filmed four years before I was born in 1985 and I have to say "WOW!" because this is the only film about high school that goes beyond stereotypes and really gets in behind the five groups depicted in it. It felt so real to me, mostly because I am in high school, but yet breathtaking, because it went down and broke the five characters down to all the basic ingredients that are present in all human beings. I just loved the ending line: "Each one of us is a brain, an athlete, a basketcase, a princess and a criminal." It makes you think and feel.

On the writing front things are going well. I edited… I goddamn edited and I am proud of it. Usually it has to take a year for me to look at a work of mine a second time that has been finished and well since the business isn't tolerating that, you guess it, I have to adapt. I edited two short stories and well slammed around 500 words in each to flesh things out, add more detail and correct stuff. My CP is very supportive, seeing how I describe something with 30 words, when it should be just 10. I am helpless, when it comes to writing tighter. Bane of my writing existence.

So now I also created the magic system for my Samantha. Blood magic has been interesting to explore and well sadly apart from multiple sacrificial traditions I didn't find anything, so I had to do it from scratch as usual. I am happy with my thirteen seals of blood magic and Samantha will be having fun. I will be having fun.

And tomorrow I will conquer the season project, which will be mostly about visual effect and that is a story I am doing just for fun. I like getting great visuals and well I will intertwine poetry in this too, so it's a great challenge.

Things to do with writing:
1) Read Gena Showalter and Svetloslav Minkov
2) Edit horror story and fantasy story
3) Tamper with my season piece
4) Post new poetry I did on my poetry site
5) Outline my novella projects for the Nocturne Bites
6) Start the funny fairytale retelling.

Those have to be done a lot from Friday to Monday, so that I can sit down and write my novel in peace.
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